Chen Chongyi squeezed a glass bottle tightly and rubbed his hands uncontrollably, he hadn't done this problem for many years, and he didn't want to provoke it again today.

His family's ancestral home is in Longxi, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian has always had few fields and mountains, and when he was young, his family practiced medicine and was quite rich, and he also read some books. Later, his father accidentally killed a noble lady and ate a lawsuit, and the person also died in prison.

He was active, and followed an uncle who went to the sea to trade between the South Seas and the East, and because of his literacy and hyphenation, he got a messenger from the bookkeeper's book. In the long days, he also used his family skills to treat some patients at sea, and then gradually became famous and opened a medical center in Zhongshan.

Ten years earlier, the Satsuma Shimazu clan had joined forces in the Ryukyus, and he had since moved to Kagoshima. Because Chen Chongyi, who was a skilled doctor, was also able to live in the Satsuma Domain, the lord of the domain, Shimazu Yoshihisa, paid him a tribute and hired him as a physician in the domain.

A few years later, he married the daughter of the feudal priest Sumiya Masanari, and the people around him said that the father-in-law was the fourteenth grandson of Nanmu Masanari, and he was quite respected in the country, and he was naturally happy in his heart, and now the eldest son Dao Takashi is already two years old.

Because of this opportunity, he also did his best, but the nobles in the domain had a headache and brain fever, and they were all interested in curing, and their reputation was very long. However, a few months ago, the old governor Shimazu Yoshihiro still fell ill and died, although the old governor was already eighty-three, but he still blamed himself for treating him very well on weekdays, so he resigned from the domain and traveled to Nagasaki.

After arriving in Nagasaki, when the Chinese businessman Ouyang Huayu was ill, many famous doctors were invited to no avail, and Chen Chongyi was naturally invited to see him twice, and saw that his symptoms seemed to be somewhat similar to the old governor of the Shimazu family, all of them were chills and fever, but his own methods were useless.

At this time, a small boat came from Pingdo, it was the merchant ship of Ouyang Huayu's brother Li Dan's family, and Mr. Ping, who claimed to be an Australian maritime merchant, only fed Ouyang proprietor a few pills and saw that it was very good, which shocked Chen Chongyi.

After that, things were much quieter, and he rushed to Pingdo with his students to ask for advice on medical skills. But there are many people who are contrary to what they have learned in the past, and the few pills in the glass bottle are the Cinchona Dan given by Fang Ping to the Holy Place, which is the medicine that Ouyang Huayu took before.

There were a lot of delicacies that I had never seen and eaten at the banquet, but Chen Chongyi was not interested at all. When the proprietor gave him the pill, he said that he wanted to colonize in Taiwan and invited him to go with him, but he was still hesitant about Australian medicine, and he couldn't let go of his young son at home, but he couldn't prevent his twelve-year-old student from running in front of him and almost bumped into his arms.

The young man was an apprentice he accepted when he was in the Satsuma Domain, and he was the son of Hizen Kokuji Physician Mukai Kanyoshi, and after apprenticing at the age of five, he came to Nagasaki with his father.

Seeing that the young man was reckless, he hurriedly asked, "What happened to Yuan Song?" ”

"Sir, the apprentice wants to go to Takasago Country (note: the Japanese are another name for Taiwan)."

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Yan Siqi picked up a pair of scissors and learned how others cut the grilled meat chops to a palatable size, which he was used to using but was a little unfamiliar at the moment.

I am used to eating the vegetarian food here, and I feel quite novel when I encounter such a luxurious 'buffet' again. Although the meals of the Tang merchants and the local Japanese people are not similar, today it is rare to see the local chickens of the Fukuoka Domain, the black porpoise of Kagoshima, and the local tatami and fresh fish of Nagasaki, the grilled meat sprinkled with a layer of rich spices, and the chilled Australian liquor for guests to eat and drink, the tempura made with fresh vegetables and vegetables can be eaten and fried, and the fruits are washed and cut into pieces and inserted with bamboo skewers.

Yan Siqi has just turned thirty, and his temperament has always been sparse, and today's banquet is exactly what he wants.

This Australian looks Sven, but he didn't expect to drink wine and eat meat in a big bowl, which made him feel close.

He was born in Haicheng, Zhangzhou Prefecture, in the early years of the month of the port to beg for a living, the moon port is the southern country of the first class of the location, since the Wanli 26 years set up the supervision hall, the east and west foreign ships are in the other to lead the hair, the Chinese ship out of the sea to inspect the size of the levy of water salary, back to the ship into the port to check the goods to levy land salary, in fact, is the southeast of the Ming Dynasty customs over. Therefore, the port of Liyue will be prosperous, and it will be called the South Library of the Son of Heaven.

But it is precisely because of this that the noble family is often rampant in the city, and the people's grievances are also great.

Seven years ago, He Hai, a domestic slave who was the tax supervisor of the Governor's Office, bullied the merchants, and Yan Siqi couldn't bear it and beat him to death, and then crossed the sea to Nagasaki to avoid the limelight.

He returned to his old business in Nagasaki and opened a tailor shop, but the biggest income on weekdays still relied on sea trade, and with Ouyang Huayu's protection, several righteous brothers are still living now, but they always feel that there is still something lacking in their hearts.

On that day, he went to Hirado with the ship to meet Hei Qiusheng, and at the banquet, he talked about it and suddenly felt like a confidant.

'The way is not good, but the chariot floats on the sea; In the trouble of people, the belt stands in the court. ’

Isn't the words of Elder Ping's quote from King Wufeng (note: Wang Zhi) exactly what everyone really thinks in their hearts on weekdays? Although he was used to living in a foreign country for a long time, he could not get rid of the breath he had at the beginning, and the business in Nagasaki was also not easy to do, in his own words, "there was a lot of money, and there was little profit." Moreover, the officials of the shogunate were extremely arbitrary, and the Chinese merchants here did not have much status to speak of except for a little money.

When Yiping Qiusheng invited him to join the Taiwan Pioneer Group, he was quite moved, but many things have not yet been dissected and understood, and he has not agreed to it.

'I heard that Shuqiu (note: Taiwan) is a desert island in the sea, the potential controls the southeast, the land is fertile and can be dominant, now we should take its land first, and then invade the Quartet, then the business of Fuyu can be successful. ’

This was the advice of his righteous brother Chen Xinji behind his back after knowing his secret discussions with Australian maritime merchants, and advised him that it would be better to go to Taiwan to colonize by himself, and it would not be difficult to gain a foothold there with a group of fellow villagers and villagers who crossed the sea in Fujian. Yan Siqi naturally understands that what Australians need is a tun who can order and prohibit, not a maritime merchant who can do whatever he wants, although this old man has some intentions with him, but he can't tolerate his loose nature, but if he can't do something happy, why bother to abandon his family and business and run to the miasma to endure hardships, rather than going to the Australians to do some business, one does not have to work hard and can sell well to others.

Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, he still slowly walked to Ping Qiusheng's side, and arched his hand: "What the proprietor Ping said last time, Yan Mou thought about it again and again, and still felt that it would be better to fight in Nagasaki for another two years, but the proprietor said that he wanted to immigrate from Fujian, and a few of my brothers could help a little, so I would take advantage of this trend to go back to my hometown in Chenghai after a few days." ”

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Joseph Adam (Joseph Adam) has just turned seventeen this year, he has felt that he is an anomaly since he was a child, and the people around him always look at him with strange eyes, he still remembers that when he was young, whenever he was bullied, he would go to his mother's arms and cry, and when he was a little older, he asked his grandfather to gradually understand that it was only because his father was not a native of Japan.

Today, he and his uncle Magome explained that he was attending the banquet on behalf of his father, and he heard from his father that in his hometown in Britain, thousands of miles away, the nobles also had the habit of gathering together for a banquet, and compared with the Japanese banquet that was divided into tables and served only two or three fingers wide, the pickled fish was brought out to entertain guests.

Could it be that this kind of extravagant and staggering banquet is the style of the motherland that I have never seen before? In a trance, he thought to himself.

However, the facts told him that this was clearly not the case, as the host of the banquet soon appeared in the room, apparently in the appearance of a Tang man, the rumored Australian maritime merchant.

That Ping Qiu Sheng is his father's benefactor, according to rumors, this Ping old man also has Japanese blood, born in the Ise Taira clan, is the descendant of the six Polo Temple Ping Qingsheng, Yuan Ping two clans of the altar of Pu after the first war his family crossed the sea and went into exile, settled in the Great Song Dynasty Mingzhou (note: Ningbo), and married the local wealthy family for generations. After the Mongol army invaded the Song Dynasty in the south, they had to move their families all the way south, and successively arrived in Australia through Champa and Java.

This rumor does not seem to have been confirmed, and it has never been heard of the proprietor himself admitting it, but Joseph still feels affectionate, perhaps because of the rumor's identification with the mixed race, in Joseph's opinion, Ping Qiusheng and himself should be the same kind of people.

Magome looked at the problem differently, and the nephew represented his father, Miura, for business cooperation and to help the British trade house in Hirado, and he did not believe that the news would not eventually reach the ears of other Britons.

As for the idea of repaying the favor, there may be but not all, and he is half the eyes and ears of the shogunate.

Since he can remember, his father Heizaemon is a retainer of Tokugawa, and when he was still in Mikawa's hometown, the family was in charge of a military station, and in the eighteenth year of Tensho, the Tokugawa family transferred to Kanto and moved to Edo with it, and successively did the horse service of the castle town (note: the official in charge of the post station) and the famous lord (note: the official in charge of taxation and the organization of labor), and later the Great Imperial Palace asked his father to marry his sister to his brother-in-law, in fact, it was just for surveillance, and he used the Miao word Magome for less than five years, It was also given by the good mood of the Great Imperial Palace, who returned from the victory of the Battle of Osaka, and the rise and fall of the clan was due to the Tokugawa family, so he had an innate identification with the shogunate.

The two walked together to Ping Qiusheng, and Elder Ping looked at Joseph with a kind attitude, "Is your father better?" ”

"Thanks to Mr. To, he has been much better during this time, but I'm afraid it will take a while to get better." Joseph was a little grateful, "My father said that if his body recovers, he would like to go to Taiwan with you." ”

"Ling Zun doesn't have to be reluctant, the little lord can tell Mr. Richard Cocks of the British Merchant House about this, and any merchant is welcome to go and conduct legal trade under the rule of the Song Dynasty." Ping Qiusheng obviously knew the financial situation of the British East India Company in Hirado, and in the first two years, his father had organized several Siam and Cochin trades, but the effect was not ideal, and the British merchant house in Hirado could only barely survive on the windfall profits of a Sumu transaction, and then he turned his head to Joseph's uncle and said, he had already held a delicate wooden box in his hand, "In the future, Ping's business will need to be taken care of by Ma Ku Jun in the official, I heard that Ma Ku Jun has just renewed the string, and Ping still has a heart here." ”

Ma Gome was widowed two years ago, and recently won the daughter of the Matsudaira family of the Mikawa Daigami clan as his wife, although the Matsudaira clan is not a direct line of the shogun's family, but it is also a pedigree daimyo daimyo, so the Matsume family is also worth a bullish value, but the investigation did not expect that this Australian maritime merchant even investigated himself so clearly, and he didn't know how to answer for a while but Nono nodded.

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Jacques Specx (Jacques Specx) had mixed feelings, he did not expect to be invited to today's banquet, but he had sent a request to the proprietor of Panasonic House not long ago and had not received a reply, and he was actually invited here directly by the Ping Prayer Saint today.

Although he was accustomed to seeing all kinds of forces come and go during his ten years of doing business in Japan, the arrival of the Australians still made him uncomfortable.

He has a two-year-old daughter born to a Japanese woman from Dejima, but even though he is in a foreign country and he will never give this woman a decent identity, he still has plans for the future of the mother and daughter.

At one point he had hoped to wait a few years for his daughter to be sent to Java with her Japanese mother when she was older, after all, such an identity was not necessarily a long-term solution in Japan, and news from Pattani had convinced him that the Yacha Garda Company in Banten was about to establish a port under his full control, which would be a better place for them, and that he would only work for a few more years before moving his family to the newly built 'Batavia' and then reassuring himself in his painting collecting business.

As the head of the Dutch East India Company in the Hirado Merchant House, his actual subordinates were not many, only two palms, and the Dutch trade here was not very good, and the shogunate was very strict with foreign merchant ships, which made him gradually tired of it.

Therefore, he also preferred to let his daughter receive a Dutch education, even if he didn't like this daughter very much, but he understood that the Japanese attitude towards mixed-race children was obviously worse, not to mention that the little girl had the same blue eyes as him, which was pitiful to look at. All of this was possible in a city under the control of the Dutch themselves, named after the inheritance of the Low Countries (note: the ancient Dutch name Batavia, originally refers to the narrow strip of land surrounded by several rivers in the Rhine Delta, named after the Germanic Batavi people who were famous for building embankments to resist flooding in the Low Countries).

But the appearance of the Australians completely disrupted all this, the first Nanyang merchant ships to arrive in Hirado this year's trading season brought the news of the company's failure in Java, the new headquarters in Southeast Asia that should have been established was deviated by the appearance of a group of powerful Chinese, and now the company's fleet had returned to Maluku, and the letter from Pattani said that these guys calling themselves O-Song were unusually strong, which overshadowed his expected retirement life.

He was even more frustrated by the company's poor performance in Japan, where they tried many goods, such as European woollen wool, African ivory, Indian cotton and even Javanese candles, but apart from spices from the South Seas, only Chinese goods could open the Japanese market. This made the Dutch discouraged for a time because they could not get enough Japanese gold. If it weren't for that, the company wouldn't have insisted that Spex, who had already stepped down, be the director of the museum five years ago.

But recently a new product has started to appear on the market in Nagasaki – a wide variety of Australian products.

Spex knew that most of these goods were produced in the Nanyang cities ruled by the Australians themselves, and if he could deal in such a few goods, he believed that he would definitely be able to make enough profits from the Japanese - profits in gold and silver.

In fact, since the failure of Java, the company has not given up trying to reach out to the Australians, but due to the conflict of interests and the personal competitiveness of Governor Cohen, it has not been able to make the trip, maybe it can make a breakthrough? With this in mind, he brought his interpreter, Melchior van Santvoort, and squeezed through the crowd, only to see the face of the saint looking at him like water.

"Didn't Your Excellency the Curator want to tell me about trade? I don't think we've declared war on your company, and it's not a good idea to fight each other, and you should have full authority in trade matters. "At first glance, the person in charge of the Dutch Merchant House is not polite, but he means that you don't have to care about Governor Cohen's thoughts.

Spex replied honestly: "I just want to ask if I can build a new commercial hall in your country's port, and I can't hide that the company is indeed very interested in Australian goods." ”

"Why not? The port of Great Song welcomes any merchant to conduct legitimate trade, and the Australian companies of your country have been working with us for a long time before you, and the East India Company is no exception. ”

"It's Jaco...... Sir's fleet? Spex seems to have some scruples about things with Australian companies.

"Of course."

Mr. Curator couldn't help but be cautious, "I have a presumptuous question, since your country is already cooperating with Australian companies, why would you allow our merchant pavilion to join the competition?" I mean, if possible, we would like to set up a merchant house in Borneo or Jayagarda. ”

"Coconut City, no one uses the name Chaya Garda anymore." Elder Ping corrected, "Besides, why don't you think about Luzon?" One thing that may not be clear to you is that two months ago we expelled the Spanish colonists there. Of course, there is also a lot of trade demand in Taiwan, by the way, you seem to be called Formosa, right......"

"Your Excellency is saying that your army has taken control of Manila?" Spex's expression of surprise was evident that he didn't know much about the South.

"That's right, as for the reason for your question, it's very simple, we have a lot of goods to trade, but not every port is friendly to us, for example...... Acapulco. Ping Qiusheng noticed the change in the other party's expression and said meaningfully: "I think your company should be happy to develop such a business." ”

When the interpreter relayed the final words in full, Sspecs' right hand holding the wine glass began to tremble slightly, and the excitement was overflowing. If the Spaniards could be seized of the Pacific trade routes, it would undoubtedly be of immeasurable benefit to him and the company as a whole, and most importantly, since the Australians had many goods of great value, then the company would not have to take the risk of opening up supply channels to China, thinking of this, the curator's forehead lit up slightly.

He was stunned for a moment before he bowed solemnly, and Ping Qiusheng heard a sentence in Mandarin from Van Sanwalt, who was beside him.

"Willing to serve you—"

[Note: Regarding the baldness of the director of the Dutch Hirado Shokan, there is a portrait of him as a reference]

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